| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness arid to me. — (JRAY. RHYME ROYAL. § 670. Seven lines of heroics, with the... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1857 - 584 pages
...more home-spun Saxon thanf "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds riowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me." ""When a man grows eloquent, it Is the Saxon clement that lends wings... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — G&AY. RHYME ROYAL. § 531. Seven lines of heroics, with the last... | |
| Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...light and go to bed. • 1. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...God ! There is no God beside! The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. EXERCISE ON RATE. Select a sentence, and deliver it as slow as may... | |
| England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...AVIIITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHUBCH-YABJl. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...! There is no God beside ! The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. EXERCISE ON RATE. Select a sentence, and deliver it as slow as may... | |
| Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...iu the mind of the poet.] 1. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air.... | |
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